1st Edition
Parallelism and Prosody in the Processing of Ellipsis Sentences
244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
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First Published in 2002. This volume is part of the 'Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics' series. This book investigates the processing of ellipsis sentences, focusing on the following questions: (i) are ellipsis sentences processed using special routines employed only for ellipsis or are they processed using the same principles needed for unelided sentences? (ii) does parallelism influence... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Processing of Ambiguous Written Gapping Sentences; Chapter 3 The Auditory Processing of Ambiguous Gapping Sentences; Chapter 4 Parallelism in Non-conjoined Ellipsis Sentences; Chapter 5 Prosodic Parallelism, Focus, and Pitch Range; Chapter 6 Conclusions about Parallelism and Ellipsis;
Biography
Katy Carlson, edited by Laurence Horn Yale University
